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Saturday, December 28, 2013

Well I have some good but mostly bad news for anyone who liked and followed MMOData.net.

v4.1 will be the final version of MMOData.net, and MMOData.net will close down on June 2014.
That's right I am closing shop.

The biggest reason is that it is getting increasingly difficult to get any useful numbers. Also many of the subscription based MMORPG's went free to play, and their companies tend to not give out useful active accounts numbers.

As for the only growing subscription based MMORPG left, EVE Online, I no longer receive subscription numbers. CCP no longer responds to my requests.
It is a shame really, I doubt that their numbers are declining, but I lost a bit of confidence in CCP, I hope they will give out useful numbers to the public on a consistent basis.

A bit of better news for some of you, because I am closing down the site in 6 months, I will make the complete excel of the MMOData charts available for download. This includes the exact datapoints and their sources or estimate information.

Well that's it, I hope most of you enjoyed the MMOData charts, and perhaps someone will pick up where I left off.

- Right click on the link of the chart with your mouse and open it in a new window or in a new tab.
- Refresh/Reload ( F5 ) the page.
- Now you should see the correct version number 4.1 in the bottom right corner of the chart.
- Once you have reloaded 1 chart, all the others should be updated as well.

Saturday, August 3, 2013

It took a long time, but here I am back again, presenting you v4.0 of the
MMOData.net charts.

While this version has a reasonable amount of additions and changes, I
expect following versions to have quite a bit less. It is becoming increasingly
difficult to get any subscription numbers. Not in the least, because
subscription based MMORPG’s are the exception these days. Most of them go free
to play.

I definatly do not like this evolution, because I am a gamer who prefers
fair competition, and therefore prefer a level playing field. Still, this is
the direction the genre is heading for a couple of years now.

That does not mean there are no options for the true gamers amongst us.
There is EVE Online, Ryzom, Ultima Online and a few more.

World of Warcraft is taking its second nosedive after a small recovery
around oktober 2012. Landing at around 7,7 million subs. Still the biggest MMORPG
out there, but at this rate EVE Online may overtake WoW in a couple of years :p

Talking about EVE Online, that is still the example of how to do things in
the post - WoW era. While CCP thought they were becoming the dinosaur of the
industry, and therefore had to implement a cash shop with micro transactions.
They realized their mistakes in time ( after their customers reminded them
where their loyalty must lie Riots-in-eve-against-microtransactions
). And turned around and got back on track making EVE Online a better game.

CCP is being rewarded now, with a PCU ( peak concurrent users ) of over
65.000 and over 500.000 monthly playing subscribers and a continued growth
every year since release, now more than 10 years ago.

At this moment EVE Online is the second biggest subscription based MMORPG in
the west, and the only subscription based MMORPG that is still growing in the
west and probably in the world.

If you make a game for gamers, with good features, it will sell and people
will pay a monthly fee.

The new PCU for EVE also means it is now the MMORPG with largest shard (
single game world ) in the world, passing Second Life which has now a PCU of
around 63.000 players. It will be still a while before the absolute record will
be broken tho ( 88.000 PCU in Second Life a few years ago ).

Then some notes about requests I received, following MMORPG’s have my
interest, but I have no reliable data for them and can't add them to the charts
: Tera, The Secret World, and many more.

About World of Tanks, no I can't add it to the charts, because it isn't an MMORPG.
And no they haven't gotten the record PCU for MMO's on a single shard, because
a chat room combined with several 30 player games does not make one single game
world, but several instances of tiny game worlds :)

So that's about it for now. If there is something new, you will be notified
via twitter ( or you can regularly check the site :p ).

- Added new Hit counter.
- Added Follow by Email.
- MMOData.net is now on Twitter @MMODataCharts
- Added Twitter follow link.
- Disabled comments on all pages except News items, for version feedback you will be limited to the version thoughts and comments, this to centralize the feedback and discussion. There will be a thoughts and comments post for each version.
- Added mmorpg statistics links.

About MMOData.net

The purpose of this site is to track and compare subscriptions, active players and peak concurrent users from MMORPG's, report on the latest news and give you my opinion on various events related to the MMORPG scene.

If you would like to contact me for suggestions or issues, feel free to send me an e-mail at ibevangeel@hotmail.com

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Anyone who provides me with useful numbers or information that allows me to make a good estimate or rectify mistakes, as well as developers or publishers that provide me directly with datapoints can become a contributor.

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